 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...Extremes are only in the master's mind ; Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great : Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 540 pages
...your modern poets. I see the lords of human kind pass by, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye ; Intent on high designs ; a thoughtful band, By forms...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul ; True to iinagin'd right; above control; While e'en the peasant boasts those rights to scan, And learns to venerate... | |
 | 1823 - 500 pages
...our character. He beautifully says — . " Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human race pass by : Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By form unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring think They controul, While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
..., Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance...Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great : Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human-kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band ; By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's... | |
 | William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 648 pages
...by an inhabitant of that country, where, Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great : Pride in their port, defiance...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined... | |
 | William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 630 pages
...an inhabitant of that country, where,.. ; Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims- irregularly great : Pride in their port, defiance...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashioned, fresh from Nature's hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...Extremes are only in the master's mind : Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance...native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'd right, above controoL While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan. And learns to venerate himself as man.... | |
 | William Carpenter - English newspapers - 1831 - 590 pages
...1th, 1831. THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE. Slew o'er each bosom Reason holds her stale, With daring aim.' irregularly great: Pride in their port, defiance in...Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms *infashion'd. fresh from Nature's hand : Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagin'H... | |
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Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by... 
